In a previous post on the fallacies behind human endeavor being responsible for global warming I said: "How do we deal with just Mount St. Helens, now belching several years worth of man made greenhouse gases into the atmosphere ever day. Try putting a cork on that one small natural cause! Or the gases produced by rotting vegetation worldwide or the effects from evaporation from all bodies of water."
Environmental activist Santosh Helekar responded: "The above statements are completely false." He then goes on to cite the typical propaganda that is put out by environmental activists about how humans are responsible for creating all this carbon dioxide that is causing global warming. Woe is us. Mario replies: The composition of the earth's atmosphere is 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 1% other gases. This is from the University of Tennessee web site: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/earth/atmosphere.html So let's recap. 1% of the earth's atmosphere is comprised of gases other than nitrogen and oxygen. Therefore a fraction of 1% is carbon dioxide. Since some carbon dioxide is caused by nature, humans are responsible for creating carbon dioxide that is an even smaller percentage of the earth's atmosphere. The "hot air" that gets the environmentalists "hot under the collar", pardon the obvious puns, is thus a tiny fraction of the earth's atmosphere. This miniscule percentage is what they want the western industrial world to curb through the Kyoto Treaty, at tremendous expense and disruption, while at the same time exempting India and China, two of the top four largest economies in the world, and two of the fastest growing, both of which have little or no environmental controls at this time. If this makes sense to you, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you in NY city that could be a tremendous investment for the toll revenues it brings in. Of course there is more to my previous post that Santosh conveniently ignores, which bear repeating: "Frozen Siberia was once covered by forests. Lush North America was once covered with a sheet of ice, all before the first automobile was invented." "This is a far more complex and controversial issue than the absolute, left-wing version, their absolute solutions and the politically motivated exemptions in their treaties for India and China, two large and fast growing economies with little or no environmental controls." "Since failing to use socialism and communism to bring the world down to the lowest common denominator, the left-wing has decided to try and achieve the same ends through the only remaining option available to them, the environment. The attempt will fail just as surely as the previous one did."
